iZombie has received generally positive reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 90% certified fresh approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10 based on 39 reviews. The critical consensus reads "An amusing variation on the zombie trend, iZombie is refreshingly different, if perhaps too youth-oriented to resonate with adult audiences."Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 74 out of 100 based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews"